Word: abu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eddie Adams headed to 'Ain el Hilweh, a refugee camp that had been hit by Israeli planes, where he was guarded closely by armed commandos. Correspondent William Stewart, a journalistic veteran of Viet Nam and India-Pakistan combat, also visited 'Ain el Hilweh with TIME'S Abu Said. They poked through the ruins and talked with bitter but resolute Palestinians...
...Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait. Qatar and Saudi Arabia...
...similar nationalization or by negotiating "participation" agreements, nearly every producing nation has entered the oil business. From Abu Dhabi to Zaire, government-owned firms are asserting more and more control over drilling, pumping, refining, shipping and pricing local petroleum. They already have played a key role in pushing prices to undreamed-of heights: several have auctioned off oil for $14.69, $17.34 or even $20 per barrel...
Since the British pulled out of the Persian Gulf in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has engaged in an expansionary policy aimed at filling the power vacuum. His troops have occupied the Persian Gulf islands of Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, which-despite their comic-opera names-guard the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 120 tankers a day carry a little more than half the oil consumed by the non-Communist world. Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris...
...East oil producers. Last week French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert toured the Middle East attempting to button down contracts that would ensure France oil for the next decade and beyond. He was followed closely by Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who jetted to Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi to guarantee supplies for Italy. In St. Moritz, the Shah of Iran took time between ski runs to listen to oil requests from German Economics Minister Hans Friderichs and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber...